The country makes me nervous. There’s crickets and it’s quiet… there’s no place to walk after dinner… there’s screens with the dead moths behind them… you’ve got the Manson family possibly, you got Dick and Perry…. - Alvy Singer

Don't you see the rest of the country looks upon New York like we're left-wing, communist, Jewish, homosexual pornographers? I think of us that way sometimes and I live here. - Alvy Singer

A relationship, I think, is like a shark. You know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark. - Alvy Singer

I love the rain - it washes memories off the sidewalk of life. - Allan

Hey, for those of us who are not as up to date on some of the movies you guys are quoting {read ME } would you name the movie? Thanks from your local sponsor.....

"Life is not the way it's supposed to be.. It's the way it is.. The way we cope with it, is what makes the difference." ~ Virginia Satir""Most people pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it." ~ Soren Kierkegaard

I have to confess...gulp...I dislike Woody Allen intensely, and never view his movies. I know there are some really funny lines to be heard, but the man just totally creeps me out. (Will now go to the corner of the room and sit, facing wall).

"Life is not the way it's supposed to be.. It's the way it is.. The way we cope with it, is what makes the difference." ~ Virginia Satir""Most people pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it." ~ Soren Kierkegaard

Me,too, Larry! And William Powell's perfect 'spit-take' reaction is priceless!

"Life is not the way it's supposed to be.. It's the way it is.. The way we cope with it, is what makes the difference." ~ Virginia Satir""Most people pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it." ~ Soren Kierkegaard

My nine movie quotes preceding Red's: First three from ANNIE HALL, the next three from PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM, and the last three from SLEEPER. All written and spoken by Woody Allen. Now I feel really old: 50 directing credits in just under a 50 year directing career.

I think at least most of these quotes are almost universally known, but just for the record, here’s the list:

I am big. It’s the pictures that got small. (Gloria Swanson, “Sunset Boulevard”)I coulda been a contender! I coulda been somebody! (Marlon Brando, “On the Waterfront”)Hello, everybody. This is Mrs. Norman Maine. (Judy Garland, “A Star Is Born”)What a dump! (Bette Davis, “Beyond the Forest”)You’ve got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk? (Clint Eastwood, “Dirty Harry”)Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. (Humphrey Bogart, “Casablanca”)I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore. (Judy Garland, “The Wizard of Oz”)Mother of Mercy, is this the end of Ricco? (Edward G. Robinson, “Little Caesar”)Made it, Ma, top of the world! (James Cagney, “White Heat”)It is a far, far better thing I do than I have eve r done. It is a far, far better rest I go to than I have ever known. (Ronald Coleman, “A Tale of Two Cities”)Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. (Yul Brynner, “The King and I”)I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it and stick your head out and yell, “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it any more! (Peter Finch, “Network”)Mrs. Robinson, you’re trying to seduce me. Aren’t you? (Dustin Hoffman, “The Graduate”)If I kept my hair “natural” the way you do, I’d be bald! (Rosalind Russell, “Auntie Mame”)Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn! and Tara! Home! I’ll go home, and I’ll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day. (Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh, “Gone with the Wind”)

By the way, I left out the quote we’d most like to forget:

It’s alive! Alive! (Colin Clive, “Frankenstein”)

AVATAR: Billy DeWolfe as Mrs. Murgatroid, “Blue Skies” (1946)

“My ancestors came over on the Mayflower.”“You’re lucky. Now they have immigration laws."Mae West, The Heat’s On” (1943)